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Women’s History Month-Meet Artist Margarete Bagshaw

For third-generation Pueblo artist Margarete Bagshaw, the phrase may as well be “like mother, like daughter, like grand daughter.”

John Ross, left, and Major Ridge teamed up to protect Cherokee holdings in what is now Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.

The Cherokees vs. Andrew Jackson

John Ross and Major Ridge tried diplomatic and legal strategies to maintain autonomy, but the new president had other plans

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The Work of R.C. Gorman, the Picasso of American Indian Art

An intimate gallery exhibition at the American Indian Museum features 28 early works of an artist the NY Times has called, “The Picasso of American Art.”

Contemporary Northern Cheyenne artist Bently Spang wove together photographic negatives and prints of his family’s Montana ranch to design a variation on a traditional war shirt.

Highlights From “Infinity of Nations”

A new exhibition explores thousands of years of artwork from the Native nations of North, Central and South America

This past Columbus Day, performance artist James Luna stood in front of Washington, D.C.'s Union Station and invited people to take his picture.

Q and A: James Luna

The Native American artist talks about his “Take a Picture With a Real Indian” performance

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